Sales of baseball bats up 5,000% on Amazon UK

As the riots continue around London, UK residents have turned to Amazon in order to either protect themselves or to gear up for looting of their own. In fact, sales of baseball bats have seen a 5,000% increase of their sales position, as shown on the “Movers and Shakers” page.

The most popular item is a Rucanor aluminum baseball bat, followed up closely by a telescoping military police baton. Widespread incidences of looting and car burning, along with property damage and violence seem to be running rampant in the news and it seems that people are either trying to protect themselves or they’re gearing up to do damage of their own.

While police in the UK are attempting to find looters via Flickr, we’d be willing to bet that police will be knocking on the doors of those who buy the products too.